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38 officers of railways figure in GM’s panel
As many as 38 senior officers of the Indian Railways figure in the list for empanelment as General Managers (GMs). They are: K.B. L. Mittal,.Neeraj Kumar, Keshav Chandra, Varun Bharatwar, Rajeev Bhargawa, G.N. Asthana, B.N. Rajsekhar, Pradeep Bhatnagar, K.K.
Shrivastava, Kulbhushan , Chandrashekhar , Arunendra Kumar, A.K. Verma, Kalishankar, Ramachandran, R.K.Bansal (died),  D. K. Saraf, R.Vijay Mohan, W.K. Pradhan, A.K. Khanna, Ms. Vijaya Kant, Ms. Deepali Khanna, R.C. Agrawal, Mahesh Kumar, A.K. Singh, A.K. Sharma,  P.K. Goyal, R. Ramanathan, S.K. Jain, A.K. Gupta,G. C. Agrawal, N.C. Sinha, Indra Ghosh, S. V. Arya, Raj Kumar, J.P. Kalia and S.K. Sharma.
Deepak to be Jt. Secy, Commerce?
Joint Secretary Telecom J.S. Deepak is being moved to Udyog Bhawan as Joint Secretary Commerce. He is 1982 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
New JS, Telecom to be choice of PMO?
It is widely believed that new Joint Secretary will not be the choice of Telecom Minister Raja. He will be chosen by the PMO in consultation
with the Secretary Telecom.
Raju is now JS, NAC
Koppula Raju has been appointed as Joint Secretary, in the National Advisory Council. He is 1981 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh
cadre.
(We said this on June 9)
Inter-cadre change of IAS officer
2005 batch Punjab cadre IAS officer Diprava Lakra  is going to Jharkhand  on inter-cadre deputation for three years.
Preeti Madan is new JS, Women and Child Development
Ms. Preeti Madan has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Women and Child Development in the Government of India. She is 1981
batch IES officer
Dhesi  appointed JS, Commerce
Depinder Singh Dhesi  has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Department of Commerce. He is 1982 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.
(We said this on April 30).
Crying for the Bhopal Gas victims, now- Is there any conspiracy ?
The verdict on Bhopal Gas disaster that killed close to 20,000 people following exposure to toxic gas on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984 has raised a storm in the country. With the Bhopal Court sentencing the then key personnel of Union Carbide India Limited and not touching the then Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) Chairman Warren Anderson the media has gone on overdrive. As the camera’s are jostling for space picking up bites to propel their TRPs the fact remains that those who were in Bhopal knows what happened on the fateful night and the days thereafter. None of the people who were present in Bhopal can ever forget that experience. There was nothing that was hidden from the public during the past 26 years. So, why this brouhaha now? Why suddenly a section of the politicos and bureaucrats are being blamed? It seems to be a larger conspiracy to defame the Nehru-Gandhi family and a few top former bureaucrats.
What is surprising is the fact that of the 90 per cent of the self-claimed experts on Bhopal Gas disaster, who are rushing from one studio to the other airing their views have no connection with the disaster nor were present at Bhopal or have witnessed what the victims and populace went through during those days. Infact, some of them were not even born at the time while the others are expressing their views from the cozy comforts of their offices/homes in the metros. Barring a handful of dedicated NGOs and journalists none of them had a clue about the Bhopal Gas Disaster case that dragged on for so long.
Instead of focusing on greater assistance – financial, medical and rehabilitation to the victims of the world’s greatest industrial catastrophe - most are out to settle scores and defame the Nehru-Gandhi family and the few bureaucrats who were incharge of the helm at that point. Are the gas victims benefiting with all this? Who are the ones who are benefiting by all this? Doesn’t this smack of a new conspiracy?
UNION CARBIDE- FROM THE OLD RECORD OF DR SURESH MEHROTRA
Official statement of MP Government on December 6
“Anderson has not been released under pressure from any quarter”
“We understand that Anderson would be asked to leave the country at the earliest.This has been done because his presence might provoke strong passions against him and we don’t consider his presence in the country desirable “
“ We could not take guarantee of the security of Anderson .At this moment we have many things to do “
“The police is duty bound to release him.Indian law is clear that the moment a person is not required for interrogation,he can be released “
“ Government did not offer any legal aid to him and he had applied and signed on the bail bond “.
“ The arrest of Anderson was made following a secret not from the then Chief Minister’s desk in the name of the District Collector.No reason was assigned except the desire of the Government “.
December 8
Asked if he had met Anderson while in Delhi,Arjun Singh said after a pause “I did,nt want to meet him and I don’t think he wanted to meet me”. Singh returned by the same plane which has taken Anderson to Delhi on Friday after his dramatic arrest”.
Arjun Singh said he had,during his overnight stay in the capital ,briefed Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi about the circumstances that led to the arrest and subsequent release of Anderson.”
December 6
American Commercial Consul in Bombay James A Becker said today that the arrest of Warren Anderson was “Unique and Unprecedented”.
April 9,2005
The law suit was filed by the Indian Government in a US court without documents.The law suit was dealth by the Union Law Department .No representative of Madhya Pradesh Government was present.
Arjun Singh unlikely to speak
Being an old timer, Arjun Singh despite provocation from several quarters is unlikely to speak anything against Nehru-Gandhi family on Andersan matter.
Abhishek Singh posted in Pakistan Division of MEA
Abhishe Singh (IFS 2003) has been posted in MEA as Under Secretary in
the Pakistan Division in place of A. Ramu.
New deputation policy for CSS officers soon
DoPT is likely to issue a Deputation Policy for CSS Officers soon.
There is a hectic deliberation on it these days.
Ambassador to Kazakastan may move to Sweden
Ashok Sajannahar Indian Ambassador to Kazikasthan is likely to move to Sweden.
Kanwaljeet Deol tipped to be DGP, Arunachal Pradesh
As the grapevine has it Ms. Kanwaljeet Deol is tipped to be new Director General of Police (DGP) in Arunachal Pradesh. Presently, she is Additional Secretary (Security), Lok Sabha Secretariat, Parliament House. She is a UT cadre IPS officer of the 1977 batch.
T.R.Meena to be Additional Secretary (Security), Lok Sabha
As the grapevine has it T.R.Meena Special Commissioner - Operations in Delhi police is tipped to be Additional Secretary (Security), Lok Sabha Secretariat. He is a UT cadre IPS officer of the 1977 batch.
Arvind Kejriwal is Member, Vigilance Advisory Council
Arvind Kejriwal, Social Activist is the Member of the reconstituted Vigilance Advisory Council, first set up by the Commission in the year 2004,  with persons of great eminence as its members to advise and guide the Commission from time to time in the discharge of its statutory duties.
Sinha is new Additional Secretary CVC
Anil Kumar Sinha has been appointed as Additional Secretary (Joint
Secretary level) in the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). He is 1979
batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.
Ashish Mehta goes to Santiago
Second Secretary in Panama Ashish Mehta has been moved to Santiago.
Appointments in public sector banks soon
Relief and good news for aspirants to top slots of Chairman and Managing Directors (CMDs) and Executive Directors (EDs) in public sector banks. Appointments to the top posts will be over soon.
People scared of Mamta “Didi”
As the grapevine has it people are scared of Indian Railway Minister Mamta Banerjee are scared about giving her factual position on different aspects as they fear that they may be scolded by her.
Resignation of BPCL’s CMD to be accepted soon
As the grapevine has it the Petroleum Ministry is very shortly going to accept the resignation by Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) Chairman and Managing Director Ashok Sinha. It may be stated here that the five-year tenure of Sinha will conclude on August 18, 2010.
IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh
Ramesh Kumar has been appointed new DM of Gazipur.H kumar has been moved as DM Gaziabad.
Maharaj Krishan is new Registrar of the Supreme Court
Registrar General of Jammu and Kashmir High Court Maharaj Krishan Hanjura has been appointed by the CJI as Registrar in Supreme Court of India.
IFS reshuffle in Kerala
There is major IFS reshuffle in Kerala.
HWWA holds a blood donation camp in Delhi
On the occasion of “World Blood Donor’s day” a blood donation  camp was organized by ITBP in Delhi. It was inaugurated by Mrs. Sadhna Bhatia Chairperson of the "Himveer Wives Welfare Association" (HWWA) at the base Hospital, New Delhi.In this camp more than 200 members of ITBP and their families donated blood. On this occasion Mrs.Sadhana
Bhatia praised ITBP personnel for donating blood for helpless patients. She also briefed them about the benefits of blood donation to ITBP personnel and their families always come forward to help the poor and helpless members of society. R. K. Bhatia Director General (DG) ITBP, other senior Officers and HWWA families were present on the occasion.
Children of civil servants not joining civil service due to several reasons
Children of civil servants don’t long for joining civil services any more because civil servants are no longer role models for their children feel the majority.
Majority respondents to a survey conducted by the whispersinthecorridors.com on the subject blamed the present day system and change in work culture for the services becoming less attractive for the youngsters with each passing day.
Whispers’ has asked the opinion of the surfers on “Why the children of civil servants now don’t want to go to civil services?”  And one thing that was common in the opinion of the respondents was that the children of civil servants were highly disillusioned with their parents’ appalling conduct as civil servants.
“Admittedly, there has been a continuous dip in the number of aspirants from  civil servants’ families commencing from the late Seventies of last century”, says a retired Civil Servant AK Saxena adding that the civil services are no longer the alluring option for the talented children of civil servants.
Reasons, according to Saxena, for this could be enumerated as: (a) Disenchantment with their parents’ deplorable conduct (exceptions cannot be the rule) as civil servants and evolution of ‘Mai-Baap’ culture in Indian bureaucracy. “This leads to their close nexus with the political honchos”.
Gradual and systematic erosion of  lesser mortal Services through subtle monopolization of all departments of Governance by the all powerful IAS coterie has also been found to be one reason why the children of civil servants these days don’t long for joining civil services.
Worse, the dirty politics involving wheelers and dealers in the prized postings of IAS officers to key positions – with no transparency, no accountability - in GOI and the States leave much to be desired.
Another important reason facilitating the drifting of the siblings of IAS category away from civil services is the relative imbalance in the government remuneration vis-à-vis the MNCs.
Children of civil servants have increasingly lost attraction for civil services also because civil servants mostly remain busy in exploiting their subordinates and making their career and they don’t think of their child's future.
 “At he same time it is also equally true that many honest civil servants themselves don’t want their children to join the government because they know the sufferings of an honest officer these days”, says PK Mishra.
Bureaucratic changes in Assam on the anvil

As the grapevine has it a bureaucratic reshuffle is on the anvil in Assam. This will include shifting of certain collectors as well.
Prateek Hajela tipped to a Secretary in Asaam

As the grapevine has it Prateek Hajela District Collector (DC) of Kamprup (Assam) is poised to be posted as a Secretary. He is an IAS officer of the 1995 batch who belongs to the Assam- Meghalaya (A-M) cadre.

Ashutosh Agnihotri tipped to be Collector Kamprup (Assam)
As the grapevine has it Ashutosh Agnihotri Collector (DC) of Nalbari (Assam) is tipped to be new Collector of Kamprup (Assam). He is an IAS officer of the 1999 batch who belongs to the Assam- Meghalaya (A-M) cadre.

CORPORATE
Srivastava is new DG DGH
S K Srivastava has been appointed as the new director general of hydrocarbons (DGH). He succeeds V K Sibbal.
( We said this on February 4 )
Deputy MD of Bank of Rajasthan Deepak Saruparia removed by Board 
Deputy Managing Director of Bank of Rajasthan Deepak Saruparia had been removed from his post by the bank's Board with immediate effect under the Reserve Bank of India vide their Speaking Order dated 11 June 2010, (received by the Bank on 12 June 2010) in exercise of the powers under the provisions of sub-section (1) of Section 36AA of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
Uncertainity prevails over AMUL's  Acting MD R S Sodhi's appointment
Uncertainity prevails over AMUL's  Acting MD R S Sodhi's appointment as the Board of Directors is yet to approve his appointment with no dates of their next meeting announced so far. 
V-Guard appoints Dr George Sleeba as Joint MD
V-Guard Industries Limited has appointed Dr. George Sleeba, as the Joint Managing Director of the Company with effect from June 01, 2010 for a period of three years.
SBI Chairman O P Bhatt elected IBA Chairman
SBI Chairman O P Bhatt has been elected Chairman of Indian Banks Association 
JSW Energy appoints Lalit Kumar Gupta as Joint MD and CEO
The Board of JSW Energy has appointed Lalit Kumar Gupta as its Joint Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer for five years .
Yes Bank appoints Vinayak Prasad as President and Country Head (Cards Management)
Yes Bank has announced the appointment of Vinayak Prasad as President and Country Head (Cards Management)

Aaj Ki Awaz

Seems BJP and JD(U) feel in Bihar they do need ek doosre ka saath!
Or before seat adjustment talks they are pulling each other’s laath!
 
Fact is BJP should have understood Nitish depends on the Muslim Vote!!
Why do you think on this Laloo is going ‘lott pott’????
 
If Nitish loses the Muslim Vote the Alliance suffers!!
What duffers???
 
Or maybe Modi did this for his namesake in Bihar!
Trying to get BJP the claim to CM’s chair by causing Nitish’s haar!!
 
Otherwise knowing that Muslims have a severe Modi allergy why this pic?
It’s more like taking into one’s own goal a penalty flick!!
 
Jethmalani aka Jethu has a way of getting out of a corner in an interview!!
And in a Karan Thapar interview this was on view!!
 
When asked about his political back flip!!
He got up and verbally gave Thapar a bruised lip!!
 
Thapar asked him ‘you stood up against Vajpayee and you did speak your mind’!
‘Why now back into BJP your way you did find’???
 
Jethu knew he had no reply so he stomped out!!
After giving Thapar a shout!!
 
Must be first time in his life that Jethu’s Vakeel mind let him down!!
And in the end looked like a ‘angry clown’!!
 
Pranab Da’s firefighting has not quelled the Bhopal fire!!
Seems now Kapil Sibal will be pressed into duty and his gob he’ll fire!!
 
And Bhonpu Janaki Natrajan is just adding fuel to the fire!!
By her body language its obvious on defending the undefendable ho gay hai tire!
 
Now the ‘fire is spreading’!!
And towards 10 Janpath it is spreading!!
 
There is no way that Anderson slipped out on Arjun’s orders!!
On sheer ludicrousness this borders!!
 
There was pressure put on PM by US or its overseas arm CIA!!
CIA must ‘made grounds’ for Cannot Intern Anderson or CIA!!
 
But this is for sure with Anderson Rajiv did not collude!
Both BJP and Congress are trying their level best to delude!
 
Did US threaten to send the seventh fleet or was there some embargo threat??
Or did CIA give Rajiv a sample of its ‘data bank’ that made him sweat???
 
In 1984 in the genocide and Bhopal tens of thousands died!
And in both the genocide and Bhopal Justice has just sighed and sighed!!
 
In both cases justice been delayed and denied and humaneness has cried!
The blindfolded Lady with the scales has been taken for a ride!!
 
Arun Nehru is trying to ‘sekko his rotis in the Anderson being allowed to go fire’!
Blanks now karr raha hai Nehru verbally fire!!
 
Confucius says…..this happens only in India …. really sad!!
I'm sure like me it makes you too hopping mad!!

Bharat Kumar
<aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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We are slaves again
This is about lies and lies.  We in India respect who speaks much hoarse lie. We fully understand that person before us is speaking lie but still we will follow him because persons who speaks truth are not liked.  We like political poison coated in the sugar of lies in India.
 It took 100 years from 1757 (Battle of Plassey to1857) for Britishers to enslave India but the present political system has again enslaved us within 63 years after 1947.  Greed is the Rule of this nation either it be power or financial greed.  No law, rule or principle is required in this nation.
Neelkanth

About "Harmed Forces"
It refers to Kamal badmouthing the "Generals" slanderously using your web media over a general’s preference for a lady PSO. If he / she has courage, why not complaint as a matter of right and ask Defence Minister not to employ females in MoD and Services HQ?

It is no ones case that the "generals" should be above civility, law and scrutiny. In the environment where the politicians, IAS, IPS, media men etc have completely lost all "Izzat" and even semblance of public trust by committing even acts of treason such as Bhopal
betrayal, the fauzi Generals and Colonels are occupying front pages for mere allegations, pretty acts of commission and omissions and even their wives and children are not being spared for things like petty accidents. That can not be natural trend but a planned strategy and
established biases of some mediamen nurtured by those who want to pull down the image of Army so that it as an institution looks to be standing as downtrodden as all others corrupt institutions. The IAS / IPS lobby with great power and leverage over the corrupt netas and
media leave no stone unturned to "show the Generals their place" even if it comes to using the civilian PS in service HQs. If gone bad, an institution needs corrections indeed,  but it should not be destroyed just for competitive close and narrow minded group objectives of those
who want to be above all even at the cost of betraying national interests. The lobby of bureaucrats and interested Media grouped with them, have emerged as an unconstitutional powerhouse which instead of being healthy for democracy is wrecking havoc on some very fine
institutions of the Country and society.

Kindly concentrate on bigger malice and not "Harm" or make mockery of Armed Forces to cover your own sordid deeds. Do not potray that "Generals" also have joined the gang. So far they have not and let them remain insulated. "Cut them, keep them but betray Not!" Armed
Forces have been the last bastion of democracy and national unity in India. Do not betray and destroy that last hope!
Raghuraj

PPS./Sr.PPS/PSO
DS/Dir are provided stenos for putting up files.  But PSSr. PPS/PSO are already posted with senior officer to take dictation and do other official works.  It is very silly to say that they also require a steno to assist them. Better react like a gazetted officer.  Still it is a established fact that US/DS/Dir are 100% worth the designation they are holding but PPS/Sr.PPS/PSO are only a modified form of an ordinary steno because an experienced steno(adhoc PA) can
independently handle a senior officer with very less support when compared to PPS/Sr.PPS/PSO.  This would also result in financial saving for the Ministry.
Saran

Curtail discretionary powers to prevent corruption
Corruption does not relate only to financial corruption but also relates to misuse of power.  As I remember, once our Hon’ble Prime Minister rightly said that Root of corruption is discretionary power conferred on executives and judiciary.  Our novice judges instead of imparting justice seems more interested in using discretionary power, the same is also the position for novice executives.  Nowadays, judiciary as well as executives are interested mostly in denying
justice either on account of limitation or on the basis of suspicion/conjecture.  The need of the hour is to curtail discretionary power conferred on judiciary and bureaucracy.  There is
need to evolve a procedure that the discretionary  power is used either only by council of ministers or the  forum consisting of Public representatives, NGO, concerned department officials etc. collectively.   Wherever discretionary power is required to be used such matters must be forwarded to such forums.  It is true that governance can not be improved merely by changing the governments.  It requires reforms in the system, which are being done under the
leadership of our Hon’ble Prime Minister sincerely.

RK

Why should DMs, SPs be different?

26 years after Bhopal the public is appalled at the conduct of the DM and SP. Normally, upright DMs and SPs face departmental enquiries, vigilance enquiries which drag on for decades and CBI enquries whichlast for  two or three generations! Why blame the DM and SP who did not have the guts to question the CMs orders? There were a few officers, who even during the Emergency had the courage to defy their Chief Secretaries and CMs and had to pay the price as they were harrassed and victimised ruthlessly. Does anyone care to remember
those IAS and IPS heroes who deposed before the Shah Commission about the excesses committed by other fellow officials in order to please the political bossess during the Emergency? No, nobody remembers them. They should have been given the Shaurya Chakra for courage, instead they were dubbed as fighters (whatever that is supposed to mean) and
denied the postings and promotions to which they were entitled to. All political parties avoided them as they were dubbed "fighters" and "difficult" and they remained in the backwaters and shallow waters till they retired. This is how a mandarins back is broken. Our
Ministers deserve the public they get,ie, the Maoists.

D. Choudhury